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Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 03:09:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Mitt Romney Says Congress Supports Banning TikTok for Israel Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design References: <4gc54j9li23r1tqk93l9edlu7ndr5ljbd1@4ax.com> <v1umd6$3urft$1@dont-email.me> <gbr54j90gc58a1874lcdj5qct40rd1mobp@4ax.com> <v1usi3$76b$2@dont-email.me> <v1utq1$2krn$2@gallifrey.nk.ca> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> In-Reply-To: <v1utq1$2krn$2@gallifrey.nk.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 64 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 08:09:51 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3903 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17cf4c965105639d$18989$3273241$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4284 On 5/14/24 12:45 AM, The Doctor wrote: > In article <v1usi3$76b$2@dont-email.me>, Sharx335 <sharx35@telus.net> wrote: >> On 2024-05-13 11:05 p.m., John Larkin wrote: >>> On Mon, 13 May 2024 21:39:19 -0600, Sharx335 <sharx35@telus.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2024-05-13 6:43 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote: >>>>> In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt >>>>> Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support >>>>> in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public >>>>> relations battle. >>>>> >>>>> “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut >>>>> down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney >>>>> said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the >>>>> postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative >>>>> to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok >>>>> broadcasts.” >>>>> >>>>> The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded >>>>> allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company, >>>>> ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real >>>>> purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort >>>>> failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and >>>>> pro-Palestinian content. >>>>> >>>>> Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel >>>>> was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able >>>>> to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in >>>>> Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded >>>>> children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike. >>>>> >>>>> “Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new >>>>> impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course, >>>>> the way this has played out on social media has dominated the >>>>> narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which >>>>> context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images >>>>> dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very >>>>> challenging effect on the narrative.” >>>>> >>>>> A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military >>>>> spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The >>>>> legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it >>>>> will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and >>>>> said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell. >>>>> >>>>> >> https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing >>>> about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth. >>> >>> It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our >>> youth. It's working. >>> >> >> As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations. > > Antifa backed of course! Cite?